Revelation 4:1 The Throne in Heaven After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” REVELATION EXTERNAL MYSTERIES SIMPLIFIED. THE THINGS WHICH ARE -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- REASONS FOR THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IN REV. 4:1 CONTINUATION. 2) If the natural divisions of the book are to be taken as clearly stated in Rev. 1:19;4:1 there can be no alternative, but that the rapture takes place in Rev. 4:1. Why then should we place the rapture in chapter 12? If the expression the things which must be hereafter, i.e., after the churches ,is literal and applies to Rev. 4:1 where it is given,then it cannot apply to the middle of the Week in Rev. 12:5. If the third division of the book is from the middle of the Week on,why is it given in the beginning of the Week? 3) never are the words church or churches mentioned in the book after Rev. 3:22 except in the conclusion after the churches, Rev. 22:6-21. If the Church were to be on earth during the Week, it surely would have been mentioned in some connection. The words used are used nineteen times in Rev. 1--3. 4) The enthroned are representative of the raptured saints and are always been in heaven after Rev.n4:1,as is seen in chapter nine, point 3. olivetree/b1/Rev.4.1.NIV
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